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Lekythos. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Lekythos
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 204
- Date
- Probably fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 9032
- Museum Inventory No.
- 9032
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P03.305
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lekythos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 03.1
- Locus
- Tomb 03.1 Locus 1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W540 / S995
- Description
- Ovoid lekythos with flat, string-cut disc foot, tall body, broad outwardly thickened rim. Broken at neck. Scar of handle on shoulder. Unpainted. Preserved height 0.194 m, diameter 0.0718 m.
- Comments
- From the same tomb as Nos. 196-205; found near the head of a skeleton, with No. 203.
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 2005, 82-3; forthcoming study by Susanne Ebbinghaus.
- Author
- NDC